Maxine Friend has been working internationally as a psychic channel medium and mentor for over 18 years. I have been hearing her name since my very first year of practice in 2013. We finally connected in 2023 and became fast friends, and this conversation is one I have wanted to have publicly for a long time. Maxine recently reached out to me for advanced mediumship mentorship after noticing more and more spirit communication coming through her channeling sessions. What followed were three private sessions that she says transformed her practice by 150%. In this episode we talk about what actually happened, why it happened, and what advanced practitioners need to know about continuing to grow.

ABOUT MAXINE FRIEND Maxine Friend is a psychic channel medium and mentor with 18 years of international experience. Her practice is almost entirely referral based, with clients spanning decades. She channels to very high dimensional realms and works with the Akashic records, ascended masters, and spirit communication.

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Part four of the chakra and mediumship series and the one I have been sitting with the longest.

The heart is the bridge chakra. Everything you did in root, sacral, and solar plexus has to integrate here before it can become service. In this video I share what happened to my mediumship in 2020 when I experienced real grief for the first time and could not do readings for months. I also talk about why ethics and integrity are not the same thing and why both of them live here in the heart.

If you work with people in grief, if you are a developing medium, or if you have ever felt fractured between what you know to be right and what you are actually doing, this one is for you.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Declaration, ethics certification for practitioners in unregulated spaces: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-declaration 

Root Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/root-chakra-mediumship-belonging-humiliation-dignity 

Sacral Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/sacral-chakra-mediumship-clairsentience-energy-boundaries 

Solar Plexus Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/solar-plexus-chakra-mediumship-confidence-authority 

LINKS:

Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

Free Spiritual Development Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squamishmedium/ 

#HeartChakra #MediumshipDevelopment #ChakrasAndMediumship #SpiritSchool #SquamishMedium #Grief #MediumshipEthics #IndigenousMedium #SpiritualDevelopment #EnergyCenters

All Podcasts are now Youtube Videos

I am sharing the origin story of how I became a medium and it starts with a latchkey kid coming home from school in the 1990s, turning on the TV, and watching Sylvia Browne on Montel Williams for the very first time.

Sylvia Browne was my unofficial theology growing up. I had no religion, no framework, just her on Montel every Wednesday. In this episode I talk about what she meant to me as a teenager, the letter to the universe exercise from The Other Side and Back that genuinely changed my life, and what it felt like to reconnect with her clips during the pandemic and see everything through a completely different lens.

I cover:

Follow @teiganish on Instagram for the Sylvia Browne clips I reference in this episode. The t-shirt I am wearing is from him too and shirts will be available later this year.

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If you knew who surrounded you, you would never be afraid. In this episode I unpack what that actually means.

I share how I developed my faith in spirit guides, the moment that faith completely shattered, and what restored it in the span of thirty seconds through undeniable experiences that make this path worth it all.

I talk about the different realms of unseen helpers, guides, ancestors, inspirers, and the God realm I am still building toward, and what happened at my retreat this year when my guides asked me to introduce them to the room and assured me magic.

I also share the story of Leonard George of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, an elder who showed up on the edge of my bed at my first retreat in 2023 with two messages that changed the direction of my work entirely.

Save the date. September 14th. This story is not finished yet.

I close with Leonard's most beloved story, The Rising of the Spirit. The last four words will stay with you.

If this topic is landing for you, all of July inside the Spirit School Collective is dedicated to guides. https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill

See pictures with the stories here: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/a-message-to-the-youth-the-creator-never-puts-a-dream-in-your-heart-you-cannot-fulfill 

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I do not have a dream I am chasing. So I went looking backward instead of forward.

In this episode I trace my actual path. My first dream of becoming a teacher at seventeen. The mentors who saw something in me I could not see in myself. My years in motorsports. The decade at the First Nations Health Authority where I became a mother, a medium, and a confident woman all at once. The keynote I recently gave to a youth summit in Squamish. And what it felt like to realize, twenty six years later, that my original dream had already come true.

I close with a poem from The Wishing Bone Cycle, a Swampy Cree creation story I have come to love.

I am coming off of hosting my fourth Sacred Spirit Retreat and I wanted to share what I opened the retreat with because I think it is something a lot of us are quietly carrying.

Belonging. Not the performance of it. The actual felt sense of it in your body.

In this episode I talk about what belonging really is as a regulated nervous system state, not just a feeling of being liked. I share why Brené Brown's distinction between belonging and fitting in changed one of my core filters for how I spend my time. I talk about the small community moments, like the Squamish acknowledgement nod, that quietly shaped my sense of home over 20 years of living here.

Then I go somewhere more personal. Last summer a friend said something to me in the car that I hadn't been able to say to myself. That my deepest place of not belonging lives inside my own Indigenous reconnection journey as a Swampy Cree woman. I share what that revelation felt like, what I have been doing with it, and how spirit responded by leading me to a 50 year old book called The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems From the Swampy Cree Indians.

I close with a reading of the Turtle poem and an invitation: scan the room wherever you are and make someone belong. Even just for a minute.

**SOUND QUALITY - ever have one of those days? Tech was not on my side today and my mic wasn't working so the sound quality is less than stellar - watch the video version on youtube**

In this episode, Danielle sits down with her longtime friend and fellow medium Debbie Squizzero, also known as the Singing Medium, for a rich and joyful conversation about the way the spirit world communicates through music. Deb shares how songs began showing up in her readings during tarot class, why she always hears them in her right ear, and how her clients have built entire playlists from the songs their loved ones sent through her over the years.

Danielle and Deb also swap stories about group readings, the resistance that almost kept them both from the work they were born to do, and the health crises that ultimately forced them into alignment. Whether you are a developing medium, a devoted sitter, or someone who has ever woken up with a song stuck in your head that felt like more than a coincidence, this episode will make you listen differently.

This is a conversation between two friends who have walked the path together for nearly a decade, and it shows.

Follow Deb on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/debbie_squizzero_medium/

Check out her events and website https://www.debbiesquizzero.com/

Spirit School Retreat June 8 - 12 BC with me https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-retreat

2026 marks my 13th year of mediumship development.

In this episode, I reflect on what has truly sustained me on this path — not the phenomena, not the validation, not the performance — but the maturation process of ego, soul, and service.

Mediumship is not about becoming special.

Through the lens of the energy centers, I explore how mediumship development mirrors human development:

• Root — belonging, inherited beliefs, humiliation and dignity

Spirit School Retreat June 2026 Applications are Open!

https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-retreat 

In this episode, we unpack a powerful listener question: Can students also become gatekeepers in spiritual spaces?

From mentorship secrets to withheld resources, we explore where "healthy boundaries" end—and where scarcity, secrecy, or ego may begin.

This isn't a call-out episode—it's an invitation to look deeper at how we share, protect, and pass on spiritual knowledge. We talk transparency, reciprocity, cultural protection, and why some teachings are guarded for good reason.

If this conversation stirred something in you, please share your thoughts on Instagram or leave a comment where you’re listening—your experiences help shape future episodes.

This episode explores how technology is reshaping creativity, business, and spirituality. From first reactions of resistance to embracing AI as a practical tool, Danielle S. and Danielle B. reflect on its opportunities and risks, test it in spiritual contexts, and ask what it means for connection, empathy, and the future of work.

Key moments:

What our very first reactions to AI were—and how our views shifted

Why “more content” doesn’t always mean deeper connection

The surprisingly practical ways we actually use AI every day

Where AI still gets it wrong (and why you need to double-check it)

Can technology really ease loneliness—or just pretend to?

What happened when we asked AI to read tarot and astrology charts

Why mediumship and human connection will always stand apart from machines

How AI-generated podcasts are changing the landscape right now

Our hopes (and worries) for AI’s future in creative and spiritual spaces